IV. Vulnerability, Adaptation, Thresholds and Resilience
With the ultimate goal to enhance society's capacity to develop more
resilient, sustainable systems, ISSE's research involves improving our
understanding of social and resource systems vulnerabilities to
weather events and climate change, investigating thresholds and coping
ranges, and helping to determine and develop adaptation strategies. In
fact, much of our research on decision-making is concerned with
adaptation to weather and climate.
The projects listed below have Vulnerability, Adaptation, Thresholds, and Resilience as their primary research theme.
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| "Because the pathway to sustainability cannot be
charted in advance, it will have to be navigated through trial and error and conscious experimentation. The urgent need is to
design strategies and institutions that can better integrate incomplete knowledge with experimental action into programs of
adaptive management and social learning." |
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